Futurist.com is the website and blog founded by Glen Hiemstra. We write about future trends, planning, and shaping the future. Glen is a futurist speaker, author, and consultant.
The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent, nonprofit research group with over 40 years of forecasting experience. The core of their work is identifying emerging trends and discontinuities that will transform global society and the global marketplace.
Guy Kawasaki is managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books for example Reality Check, Rules for Revolutionaries, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. The weblog of Guy is a practical one for impractical people.
Some call him America’s greatest marketeer! Well he wrote some great books and does inspiring presentations about marketing and the future customer. He is responsible for many words in the marketer’s vocabulary, including permission marketing, ideaviruses, purple cows, the dip and sneezers. His latest book is Tribes.
Inspiring weblog about developments within management en IT. Paul van der Marck gives on an almost daily basis his vision on the world around us.
Management Lab is Gary Hamel’s most recent initiative to renew the professional field of management. This research group is hosted by the London Business School and started after the publication of Hame’s latest book ‘the future of management’.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). The site makes the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free.